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A peer-reviewed analysis documents recurring AI-supplantation and posthuman narratives in Star Trek, but it does not establish the stronger exhaustive claim that the franchise chronology contains no technological singularity. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Artificial Life, Divinity, and Mythology in Star Trek · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:d2f0614d1c3c5ab692a804a9759fed66b565dfc312b8fdf9d4fb37831e0d9310

Star Trek: Picard treats AI’s eventual supplanting of organic life as an inevitability that is motivated by a struggle for dominance and an imperative for survival in the face of destruction. ... Star Trek continually explores definitions of personhood for other beings and in the process evaluates what it means to be human.